Bob Slayer is an Edinburgh Comedy Award winning comedian, musician and promoter.
He has been part of a new economic model for venues at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe which has made the event fairer and more affordable for performers and audiences.
[6] Slayer is driver and promoter of a mobile theatre and piano bar on his own converted ex-London double decker bus.
Established large venue Underbelly and one of the major comedy agents Avalon threatened to sue and 'Cockgate' became one of the most talked about 'events' of the festival.
In 2015, the Bookshop was replaced with a pop-up bar and venue on a double decker bus, called Bob's BlundaBus.
In 2017 Heroes also programmed the line-up at the Monkey Barrel, a year-round comedy club in Edinburgh.
[citation needed] Slayer was nominated for best promoter and won the Liberty Award for Spirit of the Festival.
Comedy critic Bruce Dessau called the award "a victory of the 'Independent' Fringe – for the first time the 'Big Four' venues, went home from the Foster's Awards empty-handed... showing that this year that non 'pay-to-play' has finally arrived as a force to be reckoned with, not just when to comes to good value for audiences, but also when it comes to high quality comedy.”[29] In 2016 Heroes again won the Edinburgh Comedy Award Panel Prize for innovative performance art piece, Iraq Out & Loud, in which the Chilcot Report was read live in full by a rotating cast of performers and members of the public.